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In his final public address, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday forcefully defended his decision to resign while trying to reassure Catholics still reeling from the shock of his unprecedented move.
For the first time since his stunning announcement on Feb. 11, the 85-year old pope explained at length his decision to become the first pope in six centuries to resign. His tenure officially ends Thursday at 8 p.m. local time.
Benedict admitted that his resignation is a "grave" and "novel" act but, he added, his choice had been made "with profound serenity."
"Loving the church means having the courage to make difficult, agonizing choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own," he said.
In stark contrast to public appearances in recent months when Benedict had looked weak and frail, he spoke forcefully and clearly in front of an estimated crowd of 150,000 gathered in St. Peter's Square to witness his public speech as pope.
Chief Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi described the atmosphere in the square as both "emotional" and "serene."
Benedict urged Catholics to keep their hope and trust in the church, reassuring them that it remains "alive" even though "many speak of its decline."
Reflecting on his nearly eight-year-long papacy, Benedict said, "there were moments of joy and light but also moments that were not easy … there were moments, as there were throughout the history of the Church, when the seas were rough and the wind blew against us and it seemed that the Lord was sleeping."
Benedict also explained that resigning from the papacy won't mean a total return to private life, as being pope is a commitment that lasts "forever."
"I do not abandon the cross," he said, echoing remarks made during the waning days of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, who remained in office despite suffering from Parkinson's disease. Catholic leaders, including John Paul himself, said that he could no more resign than Jesus could come down from the cross.
Benedict said Wednesday that his new role won't entail governing the church but serving it with prayer.
The Vatican says that Benedict will remain "His Holiness" and assume the title of "Pope Emeritus" after his resignation.
Benedict's time in office has been marred by several scandals, from child sex abuse to increased tensions with Jews and Muslims up to the so-called Vatileaks affair, which saw the pope's personal butler steal confidential documents and leak them to the press.
In many instances, the Roman Curia—the church's central administration—was blamed for not adequately supporting an intellectual pontiff who never felt completely at ease on the world's stage or in bureaucratic management.
Nevertheless, Benedict stressed that he never felt "alone in bearing either the joys or the weight" of his role.
In fact, in his address Benedict took special care to thank the Curia, and particularly the Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose lack of diplomatic experience has been cited as a key factor in the lapses of Benedict's pontificate.
According to Lombardi, about 70 cardinals were in attendance in St. Peter's Square. At least 100 cardinals are expected to be present for Benedict's final farewell on Thursday, he said.
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PLAINVIEW - Humphrey Chavunduka sits in a corner of the building inspector's office in the basement of Plainview's City Hall. On top of his computer tower is a nameplate - spelled correctly - with "intern" inscribed under his name. On the desk is a picture of the flag of Zimbabwe and a small map of the country with the capital, Harare, marked with a star.
Plugging away at the computer console in front of him, Chavunduka (pronounced Cha-voo-ndoo-ka) is searching the Web, looking for historic buildings that have been preserved through the efforts of other city governments.
While he is sitting halfway around the world from his hometown of Rusape, Zimbabwe, approximately 20 miles east of Harare, Chavunduka's job is not so different from his work back home.
The Wayland Baptist University graduate student holds a bachelor's degree in city planning from the University of Zimbabwe and an associate's degree in town planning from Harare Polytechnic. Upon graduating, he worked with a consulting firm in Zimbabwe that aids in city planning.
Now he sits at his desk working with the Mainstreet project and community development groups, trying to resurrect Plainview's historic downtown district. It's different, but for Chavunduka, it's all part of his continuing education.
The 33-year-old African is continuing his education at Wayland, seeking a master's of business administration degree. Chavunduka decided on attending Wayland while studying different universities in West Texas at the library in Harare.
"I had ambitions to do graduate studies in America," Chavunduka said. "Mainly, some influences were coming from my family. I have two brothers already here in the states. The elder brother is doing a Ph.D in Wisconsin and the younger brother, the last one in the family, is at Angelo State University.
"I was looking at West Texas in particular because of my younger brother. I got impressed with Wayland because of its structure and student ratio to the lecturers and the Christian environment."
After attending the state university in Zimbabwe, Chavunduka said he wanted something different - he wanted to experience a private university. And while life at Wayland is different than what Chavunduka has experienced - pointing out that "Everybody has a car" - it is not a totally unfamiliar experience.
"My junior high and high school, I went to Catholic schools in Zimbabwe," Chavunduka said. "The way it is done here is similar with the way we did it in high school - like going to chapel and going to church on the weekends."
Chavunduka said attending the state university in Harare was totally different based on all the outside influence coming together.
"It was kind of a melting point," he said. "It's a different environment altogether. I wanted to move away from the crowd and get into a smaller environment and get an experience in the Christian environment."
Chavunduka found Wayland and has been pleased with his experience so far, posting a 4.0 grade point average in his first semester. His current tract has him scheduled to graduate in May 2004, but he could complete his studies in December if he can find a way to continue his classes through the summer terms.
This semester Chavunduka is taking his entire class load online, working with professors from several Wayland campuses. While he isn't quite sure what to think about the online class load, Chavunduka is looking forward to the experience.
"It is very much new," he said of the experience. "I have never been exposed to such an educational system. I have only been exposed to the classroom scenario. I have to experience. I hope I like it. I don't know how it will work out for me, but I will try my best to get the best out of it."
Once he has his degree in hand, Chavunduka is planning on returning to his homeland.
"Eventually I will go back to Zimbabwe and play a roll in the development of the country," he said.
Zimbabwe is developing quickly as the rural areas give way to urban sprawl. Chavunduka said many people are coming to the cities to search for jobs and an education.
"Once they get to the cities, they do not go back to the rural areas," Chavunduka said. "Because of that, there is a shortage of housing and other auxiliary accessories within the cities. The cities are being forced to expand. This expansion is being done through acquisition of neighboring farms and subdivisions. Most of the work in Zimbabwe is geared toward physical planning which is the creation of neighborhoods, land subdivisions, layout planning and things like that."
After receiving his master's degree, Chavunduka is weighing the option of pursuing a doctorate before returning to Zimbabwe. He also hopes to diversify his knowledge by looking into the field of real estate.
"In Zimbabwe, we have a shortage of experts in the area of real estate," he said. "I want to take advantage of my background in city planning and put it into real estate and become an all-around type of expert in the area of field development."
But for now, Chavunduka is content to work on Plainview's development and he hopes to make an impact here before he leaves.


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mpdPup - Simplified MPD Music Server/Jukebox - v0.9.3
Subject description: MPD; setup wizards; web, CLI & GUI clients; remote control; smart shuffle
This project is for anyone that has or is thinking of building a dedicated music server as a replacement for traditional CD transports. The basic goal is to provide the simplest possible avenue for someone to get a Linux system based around
Music Player Daemon
up and running. There are a lot of people building dedicated music servers on the hifi and audio boards, and it seems like the majority of them go for Windows or Mac as Linux is too complex a pill to swallow. I've always been a big fan of Music Player Daemon and am hoping a simplified setup like this may introduce more users to the project.
Basic Features:
Music Player Daemon 0.16.8 or 0.17.2, full complement of codecs and streaming support
Wizards for MPD & system configuration (using a point'n'click UI or CLI session)
Smart shuffle functions built in courtesy of
mpd sima
Remote control & LCD support for platforms using
Soundgraph iMon
Small size - iso is 61MB
support built in
Built in webserver for serving up cover art to clients
Avahi/Zeroconf built in for simplified mpd client discovery
Hardened to always run in a read-only mode - treat it like an appliance
Various (optional) audio manipulation capabilities, including
ALSA equalizer
, &
A variety of MPD CLI clients and utilities included
A full Python installation for scripting
Everything is pre-configured except for the music library location and sound-card configuration. IP address config is optional if your client supports Bonjour.
Download links
version 0.9.3a (md5 is f6f775e2212395381ad2f5afdf366848 )
Installation Prerequisites
Flash Media, minimum 256MB
(USB Stick or CF-SATA, or whatever you can boot off of)
Format using FAT32, Single partion
or similar software
A network file share (i.e. NAS, Windows, or Mac CIFS/SMB share) or separate hard disk with your music library (USB attached storage is partially supported).
Installation, Prep the Flash Media:
Download the iso file from one of the links above.
Insert your formatted USB Stick/Flash media into your computer
Install and Launch unetbootin
Select the second 'Diskimage' option, browse to and select the ISO image
Drive type will be USB drive, make sure you've selected the same drive letter/designator as the flash media.
Click 'ok' and wait for the installation to complete.
Remove the flash media and insert into the music server
Using unetbootin or similar will put all the mpd state/database files in the correct locations allowing read/write. A frugal install install is possible but not fully automated at this point.
Upgrading from a previous release to 0.9.3a:
First, insert the flash boot media into another system, e.g. a Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop machine.
Delete the puppy_mpdpup_0.9.2.sfs file, as well as the the .2fs save file. Mount the 0.9.3a iso on your system and manually transfer the puppy_mpdpup_0.9.3.sfs file from there to the flash media. This will maintain your mpd database and any smart shuffle information. Your system settings will be removed and you will need to re-run the setup wizards.
First Boot
You have a choice between doing the basic configuration using point and click or remotely from a CLI.
If you're using a USB DAC make sure it's plugged in before booting.
Make sure the machine is plugged into the network.
Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse Install
Hit whatever keys are required to get into the BIOS during the bootup.
Make certain the BIOS is configured to boot from the right media.
Disable on-board sound in the BIOS if you're not planning on using it.
Go through the self explanatory keyboard & monitor wizards and Xwindows should start.
Xwindows will launch the MPD Configuration Wizard automatically.
SSH Console
This works best if Bonjour/Zeroconf is on your system (default on Mac and many Linux installs. Also installs with iTunes on Windows.
Download here if you need it
Once the system is booted, SSH to tunes.local
user/pass is root/woofwoof
The MPD Config Wizard will automatically launch during the first time setup.
To navigate the ssh dialogs you use a combination of tab, space bar (select items), and arrow keys. Enter to confirm the specified settings.
MPD Config Wizard
The Wizard walks users through Sound, Storage, GUI, and Network preferences.
Except for the Static IP the steps are basically identical for Console or GUI users.
The Welcome Screen will provide you with a choice between Basic & Advanced setup. Many audiophiles will find the basic setup perfectly suitable. If you want bells and whistles or are an inveterate tweaker, go for advanced. Only the basic setup is documented here.
Sound Configuration
Go through the Welcome Screen, Select your sound output to your DAC from the list.
You'll be given an opportunity to check the sound output to make sure you got it right. Make sure your stereo is on and correctly hooked up to your sound device. If you don't hear any sound you can go back and choose another output.
Provide a name for the Sound Output.
Choose your volume control preference.
Continue on to the storage configuration.
Storage Configuration
The first dialog will ask you whether your audio is stored locally or via a network share.
Network Share
The CIFS configuration dialogs will ask you for various details regarding your network share, be prepared with IP address, user/pass, share name, and music directory.
If the root of the share is above your Music library then enter the sub-folder 'Music Root Directory'. Be sure to get the case correct. If the Music library is the root of the share then leave that box blank.
You'll then get a chance to confirm and test these settings. Go through those options, and if the test fails you can go back and change the settings.
Local Storage
Note local storage support is new and the audio directory currently limited to a separate drive or partition from the boot device.
The boot drive and music storage drive should also be on separate system buses (e.g. SATA for boot and USB for storage)
The local storage wizard will have you select a drive and subdirectory where your audio data is located.
Remote Control/LCD Config
If the wizards detect a Soundgraph iMon LCD/Remote then you'll be asked whether you want those functions enabled, along with the default settings for the LCD screen.
Static IP (optional)
You'll be asked after this if you want to set up a static IP. This is optional but recommended as most MPD Clients don't support Bonjour.
The setup is slightly different for GUI vs. SSH users. SSH is self explanatory.
For GUI User's you'll see a list of interfaces, and you'll need to select a button for your interface, in most cases Eth0.
Then Click the 'Static IP' button. Enter the IP in the following window, then click through the various confirmation/Done dialogs.
GUI users will be asked to change the default Password at this point - this is strongly recommended.
Because of the security context the CLI based MPD Wizard is running in this isn't possible for SSH users, so you'll need to do this later.
Note any of these settings along with several others can be modified later by typing 'mpdwizard' at the command line.
Saving the Config
The final step in the wizard will ask you to reboot. This is recommended unless there is something else you want to change.
During the shutdown you'll be asked to create a save file, follow these steps, any size save file should be sufficient, smaller is fine.
After rebooting the server will be fully operational.
Using MPD - Clients
MPD requires a separate client, there are many to choose from.
A variety of CLI clients built in if you like to access your system using SSH:
Graphical/Web clients can be installed from the setup wizard, choose between
For iPhone/iPad users there is
, both of which will auto-discover your new server on the network.
Most other clients will require you to configure the IP address of your music server.
Look here for a full list of clients.
Contributing/Hacking on mpdPup
mpdPup has it's own optional development files for people who would like to hack on or contribute to it.
Download the devx file here:
(md5 is 5fa7ae9a121c3c769a363c02c970c11b )
Meownplanet Mirror
Download the kernel sources here (only required for drivers):
To use these files, just place it on the flash media used in the installation instructions.
Then launch the Puppy Linux boot manager and configure it to load the devx file at startup.
I've taken a different approach with this devx vs. other Puppy Linux variations. Several 'heavy' applications such as Geany & Firefox are only available when using the devx file. Since mpdPup is hard-coded to run from RAM I wanted to make the base file as small as possible, but provide maximum flexibility to anyone developing on the platform.
mpdPup is binary compatible with Debian Squeeze, so you should also be able to use any of those Debian packages. Refer to the separate package management article for instructions on package handling.
Known Issues
Some minor known issues with the 0.9.3 release:
The ESI Juli@ seems to have problems with 176/192 Khz audio files. My own ESI Juli@ died, and it's possibly related to my specific card - if this is an issue for you and important then stick with 0.9.1,
download here
or here
empcd is unable to call albumbler when the system is started - this will work if the user manually restarts empcd from the local console.
JWM's themes are a bit messed up, as is a fair amount of basic desktop usability. Since a full functioning desktop isn't one of this project's goals that's not a barrier to incrementing a release, but I would like to improve this in the future.
Multiple USB disks can be problematic as their drive designation may change on each boot, this is system dependent
Changes will be based on user interest/feedback, things I'm thinking about are:
Support for automount/hotplug actions for USB drives and expand local storage support.
Realtime Kernel (The BFS scheduler may make this moot)
Serial Console Support (partially implemented as of 0.9.2)
Improve/Expand the remote control/LCD support
Continue Improving the wizards for various MPD/Client features
Further setup improvements, including automated installation, Localization/il8n
Package Management improvements
Squeezebox Support
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GUI doesn't start
Xwindows is only configured to launch automatically on the first boot. Type
to launch it on subsequent boots. If it fails for some reason on the first boot you can try typing
afterward to try and start it.
Alternatively skip the GUI and just type
to go through the same CLI wizard that ssh users use.
Note for underpowered device users e.g. Alix/Soekris
After setting the basic settings the initial reboot can take a very long time - approximately 10 minutes on my AMD Geode based Soekris.
This is a one time event while Puppy Linux optimizes the save file to work with optimally with SquashFS/UnionFS. Since there is no serial console you won't be able to see this happening at this time.
No sound after the initial setup/reboot though everything appears to be working
Some sound devices may default to a muted state in ALSA. mpdPup tries to unmute these automatically, but there is a known issue with cards that have spaces in the device name. You may need to unmute your card manually. You need to go to the CLI and type
to launch a mixer application.
Use the left and right arrow keys on the keyboard to highlight each sound device/channel, then press
to unmute it. When everything is unmuted press escape to get out of the mixer.
If you get a 'mixer not found error, use the following command instead:
alsamixer -c 1
You may need to change the number '1' to correspond with your sound device.
aplay -l
will list out the sound devices and their corresponding numbers.
To make sure the mute setting is saved across reboots, enter the following commands:
alsactl -f /etc/asound.state store
Low Memory Devices (256MB or less)
By default mpdPup runs the whole operating system/file system from RAM. This will boot fine with as low as 128 megs of RAM, but if you have a large music collection there may be problems the first time the database is built. You can edit the syslinux.cfg file in the USB stick to retain maximum memory for applications, at the expense of not running the OS from RAM. Find the line which includes 'pmedia=cd', and add 'pfix=nocopy' (no quotes) to the end of the line.
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Installing Debian Packages
Go into XWindows by typing
at the CLI.
launch the Puppy Package Manager (right-click menu or
from rxvt/terminal)
Click 'configure package manager'
Click 'Update Now'
Follow the various prompts at the terminal(s) that pop up and let it download the databases/do it's thing (this will take a little while)
Click 'OK' to close that window once it's done, then close and re-start the Package Manager
When it comes back up it will still be empty, but now there will be multiple 'repo' options across the top of the Window. Choose the various Debian options to browse those repositories.
Use the radios on the left to browse categories, or just use the search box on the lower left to find your package.
Single click on the package name to bring up an install window, follow the instructions
Dependency checking may not be accurate, if you receive errors when trying to run your package return to the package manager and install any required dependencies.
Installing to an Internal Hard Disk
The basic design goal of this project is meant to be run from flash media, typically a USB Stick, or a Compact Flash Card in a SATA/IDE adapter. However some Puppy Linux tools allow more installation possibilities. If you want to install to an internal SATA/SSD drive this is possible, but it requires a few more steps. This type of installation is called a Frugal Install. Note at this time these steps haven't been completely vetted, feel free to post questions or clarifications:
Boot from USB stick set up as per the first post (or CD).
Go into Xwindows (type xwin or startx if it isn't automatically started)
Use gparted to format the SSD drive using FAT32 (optionally ext2/3)
Right click on the desktop, select Setup -> Puppy Universal Installer
Go through all the prompts to install Puppy to your internal hard drive
If it didn't come up as part of the Universal Installer then install GRUB or GRUB4DOS - right click on the desktop System -> GRUB
Reboot without the CD or origianl USB stick, off the hard disk this time
Run through the config wizards again if neccessary
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Many thanks to all the users who have tested out earlier versions and provided feedback, much of which is reflected in these updates.
Changes in 0.9.3
MPD versions 0.16.8 (default) and 0.17.2
Major changes to the MPD setup wizards, lots of newbie proofing, additional refactoring
Unmute should now work automatically across more sound cards (WaveIO is still problematic
Fixed issue that was preventing mpd client auto-discovery
Full Python installation (previous version used pyinstaller)
updated to latest version, empty directories are no longer queued
MPD Sima
updated to 0.10.0, see coding team website for changelog
Directory browsing enabled for lighttpd, root directory changed to /var/www.
URL prefix for coverart is now http://tunes.local/musiclibrary/
PHP added, disabled by default
Web Clients:
can optionally be installed
mpd delayed startup/connectivity resolved
Advanced tweaks for ALSA, MPD, nrpacks, etc built into the wizard
LCD Client daemon changed to
GMPC added as an installable option, XWindows can now be optionally enabled to start automatically
Make sure the mpd database directory is created wherever the user chooses to store their savefile
Updated Realtek drivers for r8168 and r8169
Hiface Drivers
Intel Graphics Drivers
to 2.17.0, should improve compatibility for many newer motherboards
support in MPD 0.17.x
Fixed the ssh password warning so that it really works
Fixed ffmpeg build, previous build was broken, wma and many other codecs are now properly supported
Reduced ffmpeg size by disabling all non-audio functionality, updated to 0.11.1
added deb2pet for managing debian packages
Updated mpc, ncmpc, ncmpcpp, mpdscribble, and libmpdclient
NTFS hard disk support for the music library
support built into the wizards, alsa equalizer handling updated
various updates to init scripts
Restored keymap configuration, should solve issues with international keyboards
Moved non-essential SSH files to the devx
Removed redundant fonts and other non-essential files
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Many congratulations for putting this major update together; I can imagine the amount of your spare time this must have taken.
It really does move it on to another higher level.
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Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2012, 14:06
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Subject description: spotify
hi Idolse,
Thanks for the update!
Can you explaine how to use the despotify/spotify support?
Thanks, John
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Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2012, 15:58
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File .iso in host
Hi Idolse,
I tried to download the v.093 from the link that you have indicated, but there's no file with extension ".iso" in file rar! I do something wrong?
I also wanted to ask if new version of mpdpup is compatible with ARM Cortex processor and if the Hiface device is automatically mount on with the new drivers!!!
Thanks for reply and thank you very much for what you're doing for us!
(ps: sorry for my bad english!!!)
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Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2012, 16:11
Post subject: One soundcard choosen during setup, another soundcard sounds
Thank you Idolse, I think you have done a wonderful job.
I'm a newbie, so excuse me if my question is obvious... but here is it.
During the setup I choose and I could listen to the correct soundcard (my usb jkdac32) but after the reboot everytime I try to listen to a song is my integrated soundcard that sounds, not the jkdac32 I've choosen in the setup.
How could I run the setup again or change the mpd.conf file in order to liste to the usb dac?
P.S. I couldn't disable the integrated soundcard in bios.
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Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2012, 17:31
Post subject: Re: One soundcard choosen during setup, another soundcard sounds
grunter wrote:
Thank you Idolse, I think you have done a wonderful job.
I'm a newbie, so excuse me if my question is obvious... but here is it.
During the setup I choose and I could listen to the correct soundcard (my usb jkdac32) but after the reboot everytime I try to listen to a song is my integrated soundcard that sounds, not the jkdac32 I've choosen in the setup.
How could I run the setup again or change the mpd.conf file in order to liste to the usb dac?
P.S. I couldn't disable the integrated soundcard in bios.
Excuse me, I've edited the file mpd.conf and now it's ok!
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Hi Grunter,
a question...
I downloaded the file from the link indicated. In my pc it appears a Winrar archive named "mpdpup-0.9.3". When I extract this archive there's no ".iso" file inside...where am I wrong? It's probably my fault, but I don't know how to solve it.
Has anyone already tried the new version with Hiface One or Arm processor?
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Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2012, 19:45
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...ok! I solved...the ".iso" extension in my windows os was associated to "Winrar"!
Many thanks for the possibility of customize alsa parameters!
I look forward to know how this release would run on motherboard like Raspberry PI or Cubox or other similar and about Hiface one behavior.
Good job Idolse!!!
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Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2012, 19:56
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Hi All, thanks for trying it out.
@jkoks, Spotify support requires a Spotify premium account. It's also not available in my part of the world so I wasn't able to QA it to be certain it works, but I expect it should be ok.
Anyway to get it set up you need to re-launch mpdwizard after the initial setup, it's not part of the welcome prompts:
1. From the command line type 'mpdwizard'
2. Select 'services', then 'Spotify'
3. The wizard will ask you to change to mpd 0.17.x
4. Finally enter your Spotify Premium credentials
5. Select 'Save settings and exit' from the wizard
6. confirm you want to commit the changes
7. type save2flash or reboot the system to completely save the changes
Here's a link to the code checkin for the Spotify documentation, you basically need to pass mpd Spotify URLs starting with 'spt://' instead of 'http://':
@kocozze, I just wrote that as the likely cause of your problem, glad you were able to figure it out. This release is only compatible with x86 hardware. I'm thinking about ARM for a future release, as Puppy Linux recently added Raspberry Pi support, but it's going to be a while before I have time to leverage that work. That said the Raspberry Pi and many other cheap ARM platforms aren't necessarily ideal for high end audio because of the compromises that were made with USB. That's not true across the board, some are fine (e.g. Beaglebone), but it's something to watch out for.
@grunter, Sounds like a rather strange problem - you used the wizard to test the sound output during the initial configuration, correct? Did the sound come out from the right place at that time? The only way I can see it changing is if the hardware did funny things where the internal and external cards swapped positions when the system initialized. Anyway glad you were able to resolve it. In the future you can always type 'mpdwizard' to get back to any options to make changes to the system.
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Posted: Thu 08 Nov 2012, 10:20
Post subject: Feedback and two problems
Hi Idolse, finished today the install of mpdpup, very easy and straightforward, very good work! I've got only two problems (or better.....three):
1) I'm using a WaveIo card (from Luckit.biz) and probably it's a problem of the card because i've got the same problem in Win7, but if i restart the system without turning off the WaveIo at startup is not recognised, i've to turn the card off, disconnect the usb cable, restart and reconnect and than it's ok, there is some trick that can be done to probe the card at startup?
2)At startup, the volume in Alsa on the WaveIo it's always muted, have to enter Alsamixer and unmute, any fix to consider the card always on?
3) I'm using a mini pc (samsung Q1 ultra), but can't find a solution to turn the screen off ("xset dpms force off" reports "xset: unable to open display ""), any way to turn it off by default? In the bios there are no option for screen management.
Thank you very much and keep up the good work.
Best regards.
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Hi Bonalux,
The WaveIO has been a particularly problematic card on these specific points. I do think that it's a hardware design issue, not sure if the developers can fix some of these issues through firmware updates. That said, a number of WaveIO users seem to have gotten it working to their satisfaction. Did you read through their experiences on the 0.9.2 thread?
I'd really hoped I'd solved the muting problem, but based on what you're describing it's persisting across reboots. Did you commit your changes to the ALSA mixer by running 'save2flash' or 'reboot' from the command line? When you ran the initial wizard and did the sound test was it muted? If it wasn't then I think we could create an init script which unmutes it - this was something I'd considered for the other WaveIO users, but they managed to get the unmute persisting across reboots, so I stopped worrying about it. I'll re-read the old thread.
Regarding having to unplug/replug it, I'm pretty sure most WaveIO owners have gotten into the habit of starting up the computer and then powering the WaveIO (not sure if they leave the USB plugged in), and most of them just leave their system running all the time. I'm not sure if there is any other way to re-initalize the card.
As to the screen - how long do you wait to see if it goes to sleep? On my system the screen automatically sleeps after a few minutes if I'm not typing something into the console. You could try going into XWindows and see if there are any Puppy Linux power preferences, but you're in territory I haven't explored.
Edit 2:
This should be fixed now - see the troubleshooting section if it still happens for a simple workaround.
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The Scruffs – Club Penguin Ninja Tomorrow? and New Newspaper! – It's Fall on Fantage – and Some Gamezo News!
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Hi It's Gamezo,With a Big! Post today First of all From now on i will be making a Post every Thursday! 🙂 Today's post is on the New Game by BigWig Media and Sweet Tooth Games "The Scruffs" Review and some Hints and Game Help with some new News on Club Penguin oh and That's not all Fantage has finnaly turned yellow for Autumn! -GameZo
Let's go to The Scruff's.
The Scruffs,a New game About a Little boy(Andrew) Uncover's his Grandpa's Secret by Searching Item's listed on Grandpa's Note Book,There's also Many Bonus Item's for EXAMPLE the Family Photo.
You can Play Mini games by Locating bonus Items,The first Familty Photo is Sticked on the door at Level 1.
There's also a Dog by clicking him he will Help you find Items on the List,You can only use him 3 Times.
The bones highlighted on Yellow Means how many times you can Use him For example if you use him once a You will only have 2 bones left and So on…
!! 9.2/10 !!
Link: http://www.miniclip.com/games/the-scruffs/en/
Now let's get into Club Penguin!
Tomorrow on Club Penguin is a BIG day! The NEW dojo will be Open a Newspaper and a new Play!
On november 17! wich is tomorrow the new Dojo is going to be Open and many new Things So get Ready for it!
The trees on Fantage have become Yellow the Leaves have fallen Guess what that means YES! It's fall on Fantage!
That's it for Now Gamer's!
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6 Malnourished Parrots Rescued from KC-Area Home
PLEASANT HILL, Mo. - Six parrots have been rescued from a trash-filled suburban Kansas City home.
Several of the birds had large bare patches where feathers had been plucked out or chewed off. Veterinarian Julie Burge is treating them with antibiotics. She says the two cockatoos and four macaws are aggressive and will need time to adjust before they can be adopted.
The Kansas City Star reports that the parrots had chewed through drywall and electrical wiring at a vacant Pleasant Valley house. Their cages contained piles of waste, and rodent droppings dotted their dirty food dishes.
Burge operates a veterinarian practice and bird rescue operation in Grandview. She previously rescued pets after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the Joplin tornado.


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Many of us have pictures or information that we want to keep on our home computers or devices, but in case of fire or other disasters, we want to be able to keep them safe. Pre-Cloud users kept copies of pictures and information on CDs or DVDs and hard drives in bank vaults or other safe storage. They also gave copies to others and sent discs or memory sticks to interested parties. When we put our data into cloud storage, though, we keep the original information at our home, and store the data in a format that can be used by others in facilities in different places in the world. Now, everyone can have access to this data, with permission, in a much easier way.
The FamilySearch Blog has an article that describe's Scott Allen's presentation at the recent 2014 BYU Family History Conference into the mysterious realms of the "Cloud" and explained what that means. Scott Allen is from the Utah Education Network and knows his subject well.
You can read the article in the FamilySearch Blog at https://familysearch.org/blog/en/saving-family-history-securely-cloud/.


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Located in District 08, the hotel is situated within the vibrant and cultural Little India district and is a stone's throw away from the Farrer Park MRT Station. Strategically positioned at the junction of Serangoon Road and Owen Road, the property sits opposite Mustafa Centre and City Square Mall, offering a wide range of retail and F&B options. The Hotel is located within minutes of the Central Business District and Suntec City and is a short drive away is Singapore's main shopping belt, Orchard Road.
"Investors could potentially reposition the hotel by reconfiguring and adding more rooms, subject to approval from the relevant authorities. The site presents an exceptional opportunity for a hotelier to run a flagship hotel uniqueness of this district presents."
In 2014, the 328-room Hotel Grand Chancellor in Belilios Road was sold at S$248 million or about S$756,100 per room. The hotel is on a site with about 92 years' balance lease at the time. compare this is seen as having a superior location in addition to a better land tenure. Located in District 8, the hotel is close to the Farrer Park MRT Station, and it is also near Mustafa Centre and City Square Mall. More detials
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In 1994 director Robert Rodriguez went to Hollywood, and he's been a welcome troublemaker ever since.
Rodriguez was already a self-made indie wunderkind for his equally self-made film "El Mariachi," which he funded by subjecting himself to medical experimentation, when he got his first major filmmaking assignment, directing and co-writing a pay cable movie called "Roadracers," part of Showtime's "Rebel Highway" film series inspired by the drive-in B movies of American International Pictures.
Armed with a shoestring budget, a microscopic shooting schedule and a cast of soon-to-be-stars including David Arquette, John Hawkes and Salma Hayek (making her American film debut), Rodriguez somehow shot a movie that would remain one of his liveliest works, and help him determine the course of the rest of his career. In time for the film's debut on Blu-ray, Rodriguez shared his memories of making "Roadracers" with PopcornBiz (along with a few teasers for his upcoming projects "Machete Kills" [which we hear may or may not feature Mel Gibson], "Sin City 2" and "Fire & Ice").
Was the speed at which you made the film an adjustment for the people that you worked with? How did that work for you and against while you were making the movie?
What had happened was that this was a part of a bigger series, a part of the 'Rebel Highway' series, remaking all the old pictures and they were just done back to back-to-back. Every 12 days they would shoot another one, so the crew was getting paid – not very much, but because they were doing 10 movies it worked out, so it was really low budget, and it was a lot of big directors that they had working on them, but even they weren't used to working on this kind of a schedule. A lot of those movies were going over budget, over schedule, but not over days, just over hours, so by the time that I got there all go, go, go, my crew had been working 18-, 19-, 20-hour days – they were toast! So they brought me in only because Wes Craven dropped out at the last minute because one of his new 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movies got green-lit, so he left. Rather than bringing in another big director they said, 'Let's bring in that kid that made that movie for nothing, because we need to make up some of the money we've lost by going over budget and over schedule.' …[Executive producer] Deborah Hill told me 'This is the most fun you'll ever have making a movie, because even though we're not going to give you much time or money you're going to have complete creative freedom to do whatever you want – and you're never going to get that again.' It was a blast, but I had to pick up the camera and haul it around because the crew, they were just so tired. Me, I was just this little punk, so they looked at me and were questioning everything that I was doing because I was shooting really fast and I was only shooting my edits. I wasn't shooting full shots…I'm sure that they thought that this thing wasn't even going to cut together, so you just had to go, 'I'm shooting anyway.'
I'm guessing the best new toys you had going into that experience were probably the actors themselves, right?
U.S. & World
Let's talk about 'Sin City 2' for a second. How closely do you want to keep the style you and Frank [Miller] had the first time, and how much do you want to push forward the techniques you're using?
I can't say what it's going to look like, but it does evolve. You do feel like it's evolved, but in a way that's very true to the original material, which is always what I tried to pull off, even the first time. I only took it so far because, 1) I didn't know if audiences would understand it that well, and also the technology – we didn't push it as much as we could've. So this time I think, definitely, it'll feel even more like the books. Frank has a lot of interesting ideas that he's shown me. I think it'll be very eye-popping and visually arresting, but the story, when it comes down to it, the stories are just great. That's what's terrific about it: that the visual element of it is half the picture, but the other half is a pretty important half and that's the story. That's what Frank has just nailed. That's what I'm most excited about.
You've settled on 'A Dame To Kill For' as the driving story – are you going to do two other adjoining stories like you did in the first one?
Yeah. Anthologies don't usually work. I had done one myself called 'Four Rooms' and I thought, 'You can make an anthology work if you didn't make it four or five or six stories, but three,' because three acts are natural to people. It's a natural storytelling format, and so I tried that on 'Sin City' and it seemed like the format worked pretty well. So, I think that we're going to stick with that format which is three stories and a wrap around.
Have you even thought about casting for the characters being introduced? We know some of the originals like Mickey Rourke and Rosario Dawson are on-board and ready to go?
Yeah, we haven't gone out to anybody yet. It's always a fun casting process. I like bringing people in front of Frank and seeing who he responds to, because he created these characters and it's always incredible when his character walks through the door and his eyes light up, like, 'This is the person that I dreamt about 20 years ago,' or whatever when he did the first book. So that's a great process and I'm certainly looking forward to that.
And then you're doing the sequel 'Machete Kills' first – what are you excited for in that, the new possibilities where you can take Danny Trejo's character?
I don't know how much I can give away of the story, but when I pitched people the story their eyes would get really wide and they'd say, 'That sounds really cool!' We certainly go more into a 'Mission: Impossible,' James Bond type of feel, which is always where I wanted to take the character. The story is just great. I was looking forward to it so much. I knew that we needed to get it off the ground, but then the script came in and I realized, 'I have to direct it, too. I have to direct this thing, because it's going to be so fun!' It's really going to surprise people and take it to a whole other level.
And I look forward to seeing what you're going to do with the Frank Frazetta paintings, in your "Fire & Ice" remake. I saw those original paintings of his at Comic-Con last year and was just blown away by them.
Just amazing! I couldn't enjoy the party – I kept wanting to just go and look at the art. They're so cool. Yeah, that project is so cool. I mean, the script is almost done and it's coming out really terrific, so we've already started preproduction on that, and right after 'Sin City' we go into that. I look forward to that.


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Back in the '80s, many guitar solos were very technically demanding. Could most of the guitarists come in and play them in a couple of takes, or did it take a lot of tries—or did you have to edit parts of various takes together?
In general, the players practiced until they could play the whole solo in one take. I remember Vito Bratta [White Lion] playing the solo to "Wait" while we were tracking the drums. We never replaced it, it was just great. There was some comping on some albums, but not to the extent it's done today. You would maybe have a first half and a second half of a solo, which you comped together.
Since moving to Nashville, you've worked on projects in a wide variety of styles. Is your approach different for each style?
Each artist and each record deserves its own style, so yes, I approach different styles with different recording and mixing methods. The basics stay the same: I track with [Steinberg] Nuendo and mix through an SSL console using a ton of analog outboard gear, but the mics and setup are going to change with every artist.
You've got a huge collection of guitars and amps. How do you choose the one you want for a particular part?
Normally the musicians bring their own guitars and basses, but just in case those don't work for a particular part, I just might have an instrument that works. Over the years, I learned the sound of my own instruments very well and know which ones could work for certain parts. I have a Creation Audio Labs switching system—the Sentinel—and I can compare 20 amps and cabs in a few seconds. That makes the selection process very easy. I'm also using the Kemper Profiling Amp a lot. It has a lot of my amps stored in it and it sounds awesome.
"Normally the musicians bring their own guitars and basses," recording guru Wagener says regarding the use of his expansive gear collection. "But just in case those don't work for a particular part, I just might have an instrument that works."
Do you record the Kemper direct or do you run it to a cabinet and mic it?
My profiles already include the amp, cab, mics, preamps, etc., so I normally use it direct. When I profile a sound, I have maybe one, two, or three amps going to a few cabs with different speakers and a bunch of microphones, which in turn are going through different mic preamps. All the mics are mixed together to one mono track, and then I profile that sound.
Other than having such easy access to all those tones, what's your approach to recording guitar like today?
I use mainly Royer R-121 ribbon mics in combination with Royer R-101s or condenser mics like the Lauten Audio Horizon, the Miktek C7, or one of the cool Mojave Audio mics. The mics get placed very close, sometimes inside the speaker.
Do you have tricks for finding the best spot to place the mic on the speaker?
Yes—listen! [Laughs.] I re-amp a DI guitar track at low level back through the amp and use headphones to find the sweet spot. If you move the mic around in front of the speaker, you can clearly hear where the placement for the best sound is.
What Is Re-Amping?
Re-amping is a studio technique that allows the sound of an electric guitar to be changed after it has been recorded. Typically, you play your part through an amp, just like normal—but the amp's sound is not recorded. Instead, the dry sound of the exact same electric-guitar part is simultaneously recorded through a direct box before it hits the amp. Later, the dry guitar track is played back through a re-amping box, which is sort of like a direct box in reverse: The output from the re-amping box is sent into an amp, which is mic'd up and recorded.
The advantage of re-amping is that you can try numerous different amps and effects and experiment with tones until you find exactly what is right for the track. Wagener's tool of choice for re-amping is the Creation Audio Labs MW1, but other options are available from Radial Engineering, ART, Reamp, Millennia Media, and others.


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Home for the storm
I came home Friday night in order to attend a Bush Foundation retreat which is a required part of my Bush Fellowship--only to have the weather intervene and prevent my driving to St. Paul. So, I have been a part of this storm which dumped on us Sunday and early yesterday.
I went in to visit Aunt Olive today. She's doing very well. Looks great. Emil, the Hilton's maintainance director, set Olla up with a big reader so she could read books and the newspaper more easily, but she has no interested. "I live on memories," she said. Television doesn't interest her any more, either. She sits in her chair and enjoys it thoroughly. I think she enjoys paging through her lifetime of adventures.
When I am down in Arizona, I get all ambitious to get home and start on projects. Flying home for a weekend disavowed me of that notion. As soon as I returned, my energy level declined and all I wanted to do was sleep. Wow. No projects forthcoming. So, I look forward to flying back to AZ tomorrow and getting busy again. In fact, I think I will take my laptop to spring training and work.
From November through two weeks ago, I kept up a pace of writing 1,000 words per day for 65 consecutive days. At that point, I ran out of material, so I called it a book. Now I have to edit the thing and make sure it makes sense. That is turning out to be quite a task. I haven't really delved into it yet, but that will be my goal when I return to AZ.
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Video: 1999 "60 Minutes Overtime" Interview with J.K. Rowling
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In a remarkable act of time travel, CBS News' "60 Minutes Overtime" has posted a video interview with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling conducted by Lesley Stahl in 1999. The interview took place in Edinburgh before Daniel Radcliffe had even been cast as Harry Potter. Rowling explains her writing process, sets straight rumours that she was so poor she couldn't afford paper and produces "Box 1," a cardboard box stuffed to the brim with notes. The author further spoke about her feeling that children are "grossly underestimated."
Stahl also speaks to Rowling's literary agent, Christopher Little, about finding the manuscript in the slush pile. Lastly, there is footage of Rowling reading to children in Edinburgh and answering questions, commenting that she is "writing book four at the moment and Hermione gets her first date!" The author describes the series as one huge novel, divided for the reader's convenience, into seven.
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Over 98 heads of state and government have accepted Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen's invitation to attend the UN climate conference. A growing number of major greenhouse gas-emitting countries, including China, India, the U.S., and the EU have put forth emissions reduction targets. U.S. President Barack Obama may be able to successfully engage China and India and convince them to sign the next treaty, and leading global business leaders and investors have expressed their support for a global deal. Some might argue that we are seeing a sea change from the Kyoto Protocol negotiations. In this webcast, we will hear first-hand impressions of the Copenhagen meeting and how the meeting results will impact global business in the near term.
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CANNES, France (AP) — "It's getting howly out there," says the Australian director David Michod , peering out at a torrential downpour that's pounding the southern coast of France.
The stormy backdrop is fittingly portentous for Michod as he discusses his much anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-nominated debut "Animal Kingdom." He calls "The Rover," which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May and hits theaters Friday, "a portrait of a menacing and damaged near-future."
It takes place 10 years after a vaguely defined "collapse" that has left Australia's currency worthless. The Outback is a fearful, murderous wasteland of gun-toting bandits and wanton depravity. Guy Pearce plays a terse, indifferent wanderer pursuing his one possession — his car — after a band of thieves steal it, leaving behind one of their members, a half-wit played by Robert Pattinson .
"I realized when I was writing it that I was projecting onto Guy's character a lot of the anger and despair I felt about the state of the world, the fact that bankers could destroy economies and then get away with it," says Michod. "Simultaneously, we're presented with the great moral challenge of our time, which is dealing with climate change, and yet no one seems to want to do anything about it. You throw your hands up in the air and go, 'We're destroying ourselves and we don't care.'"
It took Michod four years to find his footing after the runaway success of 2010's "Animal Kingdom," a deliciously dark crime family saga that won critical acclaim, a record number of Australian Film Institute awards and an Academy Award nomination for co-star Jacki Weaver . The film announced Michod's arrival, with some calling him a Scorsese from Down Under. Afterward, he spent years reading scripts and fielding entreaties from Hollywood.
"That couple of years after was strange. Because my life changed, I felt like suddenly an entire world of possibilities had opened to me. And I wanted to explore them," says Michod. "I wasn't roaming the Earth depressed, but there was a level of anxiety there because I did after a while start to go: 'I don't know what my second movie is.'"
He ultimately realized he wanted to make a movie "from the ground up." ''The Rover" was an idea Michod and his friend Joel Edgerton ("The Great Gatsby," ''Warrior") first conceived of years earlier: a lean, minimalistic thriller with exposition meted out in the most judicious of drips. Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a clear touchstone.
Michod, 41, wrote the lead specifically for Pearce, who was the lone established star in "Animal Kingdom." The movie brought international renown to the loose Aussie filmmaking collective dubbed Blue-Tongue Films, of which Michod and Edgerton are members.
"I sort of keep forgetting I was in it," Pearce says of "Animal Kingdom." ''I was only on set for a week and a half and those guys, they lived it. It's a hard one to feel connected on the same sort of level when it's changing everyone's lives."
Reconvening for "The Rover" was the first time they saw each other since shooting "Animal Kingdom." Pearce recalls greeting Michod: "'So, your life's been a bit different, then, since I saw you in 2009.' He's like, 'Yeah. Had a meeting with Brad Pitt the other day.'"
Michod, who splits his time between Sydney and Los Angeles, is now developing a film with Pitt about Gen. Stanley McChrystal called "The Operators," based on Michael Hastings' book.
The director's rising star also attracted Pattinson, the "Twilight" actor, who has often played still, cool characters that trade on his severe looks. But in "The Rover," he's received the best reviews of his career for playing a fidgeting, bloodied misfit with a stuttering Southern accent.
"There was something about the speech pattern," says Pattinson. "When you're reading something, it's very rare that you actually want to say it out loud. As soon as I started reading this, it was just a fun voice. You become really annoying and run into the other room: 'Listen to this!' And they say, 'What are you talking about? I can't understand anything you're saying.'"
"The Rover" may seem similar to other visions of bleak futures, but Michod says the film isn't about its genre.
"As soon as you present a dystopian vision that is the result of some kind of apocalypse, it's like it gives the movie license to become popcorn," says Michod. "I wanted this thing to feel like it was just a natural extension of the forces that are bubbling around us today."


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OSMOTEC Engineering GmbH, Germany, designs and constructs state-of-the-art Reverse Osmosis, (RO), plants for the purpose of extracting clean drinking water from saline seawater in both offshore and onshore desalination installations.
OSMOTEC is acknowledged as an expert within the water desalination industry and is known for their highly sophisticated designs and for the use of first quality materials. Consequently, many of their systems are considered as standard within the water desalination industry around the world.
The fact that several of the company's first RO plants still function; show evidence of a company that is well reputed for its know-how, technology and high quality products.
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OSMOTEC produce RO plants that are cost-effi cient, fully automated, and reliable both at river mouths and at sea and which demand a minimum of maintenance. n the light of the aggressive nature of seawater, the RO process calls for the use of high-grade material components that are corrosion-resistant, and that deliver high performance, and in the last resort, clean drinking water.
Therefore, it is of the utmost importance for the company that its suppliers can deliver reliable components of outstanding quality. High efficient membranes and high-grade steel quality for high-pressure pumps are only a few examples of what OSMOTEC expects of their suppliers. If the components do not live up to OSMOTEC's severe expectations to quality and performance, the RO plants consequently do not produce satisfactory clean water.
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The BM booster's compact design makes it easy to integrate the pump into existing piping systems. As a result, the BM boosters do not take up much room. The pump is hermetically sealed; a design that helps minimising maintenance costs and makes the pump a low-noise pump. Because of their solid construction, the BM booster pumps are perfect for onshore and offshore applications.
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Project Runway's Andy South Produces New Line
The New South: From Waianae High School to Project Runway to Neiman Marcus, 24-year-old fashion designer Andy South has come a long way—and he's just getting started.
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In his airy, third-floor studio in Chinatown, fashion designer Andy South keeps his work stations clearly defined: Design and sewing in the largest, brightest room; computer work and calendar scheduling in the central office area; models and friends chat on the L-shaped sofa in the community area; and sleeping—if at all possible—in the smallest, back room.
There, strewn around his makeshift twin bed, rest barbells to remind him to get some exercise and empty suitcases to remind him he's got a plane to catch the next day. Against the wall, a shelving unit houses spools of thread, bolts of fabric and innumerable design books, just in case he needs to be reminded why he's sleeping on that makeshift bed in the first place.
The reason, of course, is that he's making a name for himself in the fashion industry. Like so many emerging entrepreneurs building a business, he's earning it the old-fashioned way: through toil, focus and very little sleep.
To be fair, he's had an important advantage in this quest: recognition, and plenty of it. Lithe, soft spoken and unfailingly polite, 24-year-old South entered America's living rooms each week last summer and fall as a competitor on Season 8 of the hit Lifetime series, Project Runway. He turned in a pretty respectable showing, too—making it to the finals, presenting his collection at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center and taking third place in the competition.
Unlike many of the current offerings in the pantheon of reality television programming, Project Runway provides contestants an arena in which they must actually use talent and skill to advance. It makes for compelling viewing, too; even those who don't know a bobbin from a spool can appreciate the fierce competition among fashion designers tasked with creating themed garments in unthinkably small amounts of time and with unlikely materials.
The platform was a great vehicle for South, who earned high praise from the judges for his accomplished braiding and handiwork, and whose calm demeanor served him well within the pressure-cooker atmosphere. He deftly sidestepped the drama that shadowed so many of his competitors, refusing to engage in petty rivalries or make snarky comments to the famous judges. Instead, he infused his clothing with drama and accepted criticism with poise.
"The experience taught me to be open to opinions and take criticism better than I used to," says South of having his work regularly critiqued by supermodel host Heidi Klum, Marie Claire fashion director Nina Garcia, American sportswear designer Michael Kors and various celebrity judges. "My design is very personal to me, so it's hard for me not to take criticism personally. When it is your art—it's what you pour your heart and soul into—it's difficult to hear that. But it's taught me really to know who I am and what I stand for. I reminded myself that these were just opinions and they do matter, but they're not going to be what determines my career."
Interestingly enough, a career in fashion wasn't something the young designer realized he wanted to pursue until he was nearly finished with high school. "I was driven to fashion as an industry during my junior year of high school after a friend brought me information about FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, in California) from a career fair. That was my school of choice, but it turned out to be too expensive so I looked into other options and found Honolulu Community College (HCC), which turned out to be great. Had it not been for that initial brochure, I would not have known that a career in fashion was possible."
Before that, his interaction with fashion was strictly visceral. "I didn't know what fashion was," he says. "I didn't grow up around it. All I knew was that I liked watching red carpets, prom season and gowns. To me, when a woman got dressed up it was just so magical and so beautiful, I couldn't take it."
He started designing gowns and only later took his first sewing classes at HCC, where he earned an associate's degree in 2007 from the fashion technology program and served as the Fashion Society president.
South's quiet nature belies a fierce drive and fortitude—something he may have inherited from his immigrant parents, who fled political persecution in their home country of Laos when the Communist Party came to power in 1975. "[Coming to Hawaii] was a means to escape that," he explains. "My grandfather was involved in the government in Laos. They were directed to leave or the family would have probably been killed off."
Born in Kailua on Sept. 9, 1986, he moved with his family to Waianae when he was in the third grade. The youngest of five children, South—whose real name is Southiphong (SOO-tee-pong)—earned his famous nickname, "South," at Waianae High School, where he graduated in 2004. It's fitting he'd use the sobriquet as the title of his first retail fashion collection.


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This seminar explores the historical processes by which slavery was proclaimed abolished by various national, imperial, and colonial decrees between the age of democratic revolutions (1770s-1820) through World War I. Background readings, historical texts, and visual documents have been selected in order to take advantage of the increasingly similar questions about slavery's ending that have emerged in the historical literatures of many different countries. The course therefore takes advantage of growing interdisciplinary and cross-national scholarly research about slavery and emanipations in order to compare and contrast emancipatory processes in regions of the Caribbean (especially St. Domingue/Haiti and Jamaica), North America (especially the United State), Brazil, and West Africa (especially Francophone West Africa– Senegal, Ivory Coast, Guinea). Course materials can be used to explore the following questions: How have historians explained slavery's abolition? What different social groups embraced abolitionism and how did their visions of freedom differ?; What varying roles did slaves and freeborn black people play in ending slavery and how did their visions of society after emancipation differ?; Did formerly enslaved men and women experience emancipation differently? How did abolition affect ideas about public life and citizenship? How did abolition affect conceptions of domestic and nominally private relations of household life? How was unfree labor redefined in the wake of slavery's abolition? What contrasts distinguish the early abolitions that occurred during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions from later abolitions in the British West Indies, the United States, Cuba, Brazil, and West Africa and what questions are raised by these contrasts? Do any meaningful similarities in slave emancipation emerge from such a chronologically broad, transAtlantic cross-national comparisons? What similarities, if any, do you observe and what do you make of them? The seminar is offered in the spirit of stimulating new perspectives on familiar questions.
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ADANA, Turkey's fifth-largest city, with more than 1.5 million inhabitants, sprawls 40km east of Tarsus. A modern place, which has grown rapidly since the 1990s, Adana continues to owe much of its wealth to the surrounding fertile countryside of the Çukurova. Its textile industry has grown up on the back of the local cotton fields.
The city itself is divided by the E5 highway into the swanky north, with its cinemas and designer malls, and the more traditional bustling south, with the markets, mosques and hotels of the old town. As there are few pedestrian bridges and underpasses, you have to negotiate mind-blowing traffic to reach many of the local sights.
Adana's small Archeological Museum (Arkeolji Müzesi) is in a prime location right next to the impressive Sabancı Merkez Camii. The small courtyard at the back enjoys beautiful views across the mosque gardens. Inside, two floors showcase predominantly Hellenistic and Roman statuary, plus some fine sarcophagi and Hittite statues. Unfortunately many of the upstairs exhibition rooms are now closed or empty, and aside from the Turkish nameplates there's very little information to guide visitors.
Brief history
Despite its contemporary, metropolitan feel, Adana has historical roots going back to 1000 BC. The arrival of the Greeks precipitated an on-off power struggle with the powerful Persian Empire that was to last for a thousand years, ending only when the Romans arrived during the first century BC. Under the Romans, the city became an important trading centre, afterwards passing through various hands before falling to the Ottomans during the sixteenth century.
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By Megha Rajagopalan and Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah
BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Dozens of distraught relatives of passengers on a lost Malaysian jetliner clashed with police in Beijing on Tuesday, accusing Malaysia of "delays and deception" a day after it confirmed the plane crashed in remote seas off Australia.
About 20 to 30 protesters threw water bottles at the Malaysian embassy and tried to storm the building, demanding to meet the ambassador, witnesses said. Earlier, the relatives, many with tear-stained faces, had linked arms and chanted "Malaysian government has cheated us" and "Malaysia, return our relatives" as they marched peacefully and held banners.
The relatives' grief and anger was unleashed on Monday night after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished more than two weeks ago while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
Citing satellite-data analysis by British company Inmarsat, he said there was now no doubt that the Boeing jet came down in the ocean in one of the most remote places on Earth - an implicit admission that all 239 people on board had died.
Bad weather in the region far off Australia's western coast on Tuesday forced the suspension of the search for any wreckage, just as a series of satellite images and other sightings of floating objects had raised hopes that debris from the plane would be found.
Malaysia's confused initial response to the Boeing 777's disappearance and a perception of poor communications has enraged many relatives of the more than 150 Chinese passengers and has strained ties between Beijing and Kuala Lumpur.
Following Najib's announcement, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Hangsheng demanded that Malaysia hand over all relevant satellite analysis showing how Malaysia had reached its conclusion about the jet's fate.
In a separate statement, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said China would ask Malaysia to provide more detailed and accurate information on the plane, according to a government microblog account. Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a special envoy to Kuala Lumpur to consult with the Malaysian government, state news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday.
The U.S. State Department said the United States was cooperating with Malaysia and working to verify the data from Inmarsat and the Kuala Lumpur government about the course of the U.S.-made plane.
"Basically, we are going back and looking at how they got to where they got to and seeing if our math experts and folks can get to the same place as well," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told a regular news briefing.
A group reportedly representing families issued a statement describing the Malaysian airline, government and military as "executioners" who constantly tried to delay and deceive them.
"We will take every possible means to pursue the unforgivable crimes and responsibility of all three," said the statement on the microblog of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 Family Committee.
The relatives protesting in Beijing held signs that said: "MH370, Don't let us wait too long!" and "1.3 billion people are waiting to greet the plane." They wore matching T-shirts that said: "Best of luck to MH370, return home safely."
"We've waited for 18 days and still, you make us wait. How long are we supposed to hang on?" a woman surnamed Zhang told Reuters.
The protest ended after a few hours when police told demonstrators to get on buses and escorted them away.
Criticism of the Malaysian national carrier mounted after some relatives of those on board first received the news that the search for survivors was over in an SMS, or text message, from the airline saying, "We have to assume beyond all reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and none of those on board survived."
At a news conference at Kuala Lumpur's international airport on Tuesday, company officials defended the move, saying the text message had only been sent as a "last resort" to ensure that some relatives did not hear the news first from media outlets.
"This is a time of extraordinary emotions, and we fully understand," said Malaysia Airlines Chairman Mohd Nur Yusof. "In fact, we really feel for the next of kin. In terms of how they react, it's emotional."
Asked whether he would resign over the crisis, the airline's chief executive, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, said that would be a personal decision to be made later.
Flight MH370 vanished from civilian radar screens less than an hour after taking off on March 8. No confirmed debris from the plane has been found since.
Investigators believe someone on the flight may have shut off the plane's communications systems. Partial military radar tracking showed it turning west and recrossing the Malay Peninsula, apparently under the control of a skilled pilot.
Recovery of wreckage could unlock clues about why the plane had diverted so far off course. Theories range from a hijacking to sabotage or a possible suicide by one of the pilots, but investigators have not ruled out technical problems.
As a result of the new satellite analysis, the international search effort has been narrowed to focus solely on the southern end of the possible route - a still-massive area of 469,000 square miles (1.2 million sq km) - Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters.
The search site is far from commercial flight paths about 2,500 km (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth, a region of deep, frigid seas known as the Roaring 40s where storm-force winds and huge waves are commonplace.
Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that it would make arrangements to fly relatives to Australia once it had approval from the investigating authorities.
Australia's Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said his department was working with the airline and Beijing to facilitate visas. Relatives would be given tourist visas with the usual fees waived, he said.
Najib's announcement opened the way for what will be one of the most costly, difficult air crash investigations ever. Normally, an official investigation can only begin once a crash site has been identified. That would give Malaysia power to coordinate and sift evidence.
A government source told Reuters that Malaysia would lead the investigation, but hoped other countries, especially Australia, would play a major role.
The United States said it was sending an undersea Navy drone to Australia, in addition to a high-tech black box detector, to help in the search.
But the black box detector would not arrive in the search area until April 5, Hishammuddin said, leaving only a few days to pick up locator beacons from the box that stop about a month after a crash due to limited battery life.
The so-called black boxes - the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder - record what happens during flight.
Najib said Inmarsat had performed further calculations on data gleaned from faint pings picked up by satellite that initially only narrowed the search area to two massive arcs.
Giving more details on the analysis on Tuesday, Hishammuddin said it showed that at some time after 0011 GMT - about six hours after its last sighting by Malaysian military radar on March 8 - the aircraft was no longer able to communicate with the ground station.
"This is consistent with the maximum endurance of the aircraft," he said.
He said there was evidence of a further "partial handshake" between the satellite and the aircraft eight minutes later, but that this transmission was not understood and was being analyzed.
(Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard, Megha Rajagopalan and Joseph Campbell in Beijing, Stuart Grudgings, Michael Martina, Siva Govindasamy and A. Ananthalakshmi in Kuala Lumpur; Phil Stewart and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Jane Wardell in Sydney and Matt Siegel in Perth; Writing by Stuart Grudgings; Editing by Alex Richardson and Jonathan Oatis)